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Subject: Re: Should the hourly wage a barback makes affect their tip out?
From: Dan the Melon Man
Posted: Sat Mar 26. 2011, 03:15 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Should the hourly wage a barback makes affect their tip out?"  by Chris Milligan  (Thu Mar 24. 2011, 16:29 UTC)
> Quality works deems a quality tip no matter what.

Yep, I agree with you fully there.

And also with the natural corollary:

  Work that is not quality - does not deserve it.


So, leaving out the idea of tips as a bonus for extra service, that leaves us 
with the classic justification for mandatory minimum tipping :
- that service staff are institutionally underpaid, and the "service charge" 
is required from the customer to bring them up to a fair wage.

Although I'm unhappy with the cause (managers underpaying staff) I find the 
argument justifiable.

If it was widely believed that all wait staff were paid $40 per hour no matter 
what, do you think it would change attitudes to and amounts of compulsory 
tipping?
I think it would make a difference. In talking about tips, you do need to 
take into account the base wage being earned.
Which is why I tip less at overpriced places than I do in dives.


To the OP then:
Yes, I think that the hourly amount a worker gets would directly influence 
their entitlement to compulsory, fixed-percentage 'tips'.

.dan.


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